[Dixielandjazz] Strange Fruit

[Andy Ling]

Bob Sann wrote....
> Some background on Lewis Allen, the composer of "Strange Fruit."

Snip....

> I never found out that he was a song writer until many years later. He was
> also known for his courage in
> adopting, along with his wife, the orphaned sons of Ethel & Julius
> Rosenberg---when nobody wanted them!
> 

One of the Rosenberg sons was interviewed in the radio 4 programme.
He said the Meeropols had always wanted children and Lewis and Allen
were the names they had chosen and that is why Abel chose that
pen name. He also talked of their courage in adopting him and his brother.

Regards

Andy Ling
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